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Next Hospitality Event April 29

Video In Video Out and the Cue Up Collective present HOSPITALITY SERIES

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Location:: Video In Video Out, 1965 Main St.
Guest:: Gregory Borowski
Submissions 7:30pm and screenings 8:00pm
Socializing to follow.
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Architecture and Hospitality
Gregory Borowski, Design Principal at Merrick Architecture will be exploring the concept of hospitality in architecture, through the medium of the Nordic Centre Daylodge project in the Callahan Valley in British Columbia.  The notion of hospitality may be considered to extend to the role and participation of the First Nations, to the reception of thousands of visitors to the 2010 Winter Olympics, and to the ongoing legacy function of a facility hosting winter and summer outdoor sports and sporting groups.  How do we site and orient a building to welcome visitors?  How do we acknowledge the history and culture of the First Nations in the present day?  How to we allow for future users?  How can the furthering of sustainability in architecture better steward the earth? These are some of the questions which will be brought forward.

Gregory Borowski’s architectural vision is steeped in his unusual life experience.
An interest in the poetic potential of contemporary architecture, as well as a wish to embrace outdoor space have subsequently informed his work.  In 2001, Greg returned to Vancouver and assumed a partnership with Merrick Architecture.  He has subsequently taken design leadership on the mixed use Hollyburn project in West Vancouver, and the high-rise Laguna Parkside at the entrance to Stanley Park in Vancouver, as well as Elan, Symphony Place, O2 and Parcel 10 Millennium Water in Vancouver (a LEED Gold community), as well as the Olympic Nordic Centre Daylodge. Greg has a passion to bring forward fresh perceptions to significant projects, and believes firmly in the role of a building in the broader context of the city.

For more information about Cue Up please email:
cueup@videoinstudios.com or visit our blog at http://www.cueup.typepad.com

Hospitality 3 Video as Gift

Thursday, March 25 was the Cue Up Collective's third installment of Hospitality, a year-long theme exploring themes around the idea of hospitality in our community.  The turn out was very good and there were engaging comments and conversations concerning video producers 'gifts' of videos.  The following producers presented their work:

Jeff Langille, Gift, miniDV, 1min. and Rooftop, miniDV, 2 min.
Nick Brown, 4 movies, DVD, 6:59 min., www.videomarsh.com
Randall, Machine with Wishbone, HD, 6 min. A journey of a mechanical wishbone through an imagined landscape.
Stu Hughes, Imaginoid, DVD, 1 min. This work is a quick vector animation about imagination.  crystalbeard.com
Brandon Blommaert, Greycon, DVD, 6:36 min.  This a stop motion/digital animation completed in 2007.  Pandaclock.com/tombnerd
Lois Klassen, Flowers for Joyce, miniDV, 7:00 min.
Kim Anderson, The Fall, DVD, 2:30 min.  A creation/destruction myth.  www.kimberleyanderson.com

Thank you to all participants and audience members.  Stay tuned to more announcements here for our next Hospitality event on April 29 at 7:30 pm.